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Quannapowitt Club, Mr. Cowdrey belongs to 

 the Masons. 



In the matinees at the Reading- Wakefield 

 track and interclub meets, Mr. Cowdrey was 

 a very prominent factor. He always had in. 

 his stable trotters and pacers with speed to 

 go out and make trouble in whatever class he 

 elected to start them. The driving club trot- 

 ting record of the track, 1 :o6 1-2, was made 

 by one of his trotters, Crown Prince, 2:17 1-4, 

 while the pacing record of 1 105 was made by 

 Ginger B., 2:18 1-4, a mare he owned before 

 this performance was made. Other trotters 

 that he raced with success were Frank R. 

 Wilkes, Hampshire Boy, Evergreen, and the 

 good colt, Parkeno ; while in the pacing divi- 

 sion, outside of Ginger B., he owned Baron 

 B., 2:15 1-4; Belle Sherwood, Belle Park, 

 2:2^ 1-4, and Bettv. Mr. Cowdrey resides in 

 Wakefield. Mass. ' 



HENRY W. WEYMOUTH 



Henry W. Weymouth was born in Brattle- 

 boro, Vt., in 1870, and attended the local 

 schools of his native town and of Walpole, 

 X. H. His first work was for B. E. Webster, 

 owner of the Meeting House Hill Farm, 

 Walpole, X. H. This was in 1887. He soon 

 after entered the employ of the Fitchburg 

 Railroad, where he remained for ten years. 

 In 1899 he bought a farm in Walpole, N. H.. 

 where he remained until 191 1, when he pur- 

 chased his present farming property in Xorth 

 Reading, Mass. 



Mr. Weymouth joined the Quannapowitt 

 Driving Club in 191 1 and filled the office of 

 secretary in the years 1912-13-14. He was a 

 most efficient man for the position, having 

 from a young man been strongly interested 

 in the light harness horse and a fine bred dog. 



In the matinees of the Quannapowitt Club 

 at the Reading-Wakefield track, Mr. Wey- 

 mouth raced the well-known pacer, Tom 

 Smelzey, 2:r8 1-2, who in professional racing 

 was famous throughout the West for the 

 split-heat races he captured. Tom Smelzey 

 was twenty-eight years old when Mr. Wey- 

 mouth matineed him in 191 1. That year he 

 won five races, three seconds, and one thin' 

 in his nine starts. The following year he 

 started eight times and was first five times, 

 second twice, and third once. He was always 

 a fighter to the finish of the race, winning his 

 heats in around 1 :i5. In the Spring of 1914, 

 when thirty-two years of age, Tom Smelzey 

 was put away by Mr. Weymouth, and, up 

 to the day of his death, he was as fat, slick, 

 and sound as any colt. 



Another owned and raced by Mr. Wey- 

 mouth in the Quannapowitt matinees was 

 the mare Helen L., by Dare Devil, 2:09. He 



started her three times in 1912, and in 1913 

 she faced the starting judge in no less than 

 thirteen races and, as the result of her work, 

 secured the cup for winning more races than 

 any other horse in the club. She has been a 

 trial over the Reading-Wakefield half-mile 

 track in 2:28 1-2, has won heats in her mati- 

 nee races in 1 115, and was second in 1 :io 1-2. 

 Mr. Weymouth resides at Xorth Reading, 

 Mass. 



W. H. NICHOLS 

 W. H. Nichols was one of the charter mem- 

 bers of the Quannapowitt Driving Club. He 

 has for a number of years been in the em- 

 ploy of Beyer Bros.' Commission Co., at 47- 

 48 South Market Street, Boston. Mr. 

 Xichols has been strongly identified with 

 matinee sport, always owning a good trotter, 

 among these being Joe Thomas, by Tarratine, 

 which started in the first matinee of the 

 Quannapowitt Driving Club ; Perseverance, 

 2:241-4; Gold Rand, Jr.. Country Boy, 

 2:201-4, and Hector K., 2:291-4, by 

 Seumanee, son of Bingen, 2:06 1-4, dam, Irish 

 Queen, by Edgemark, 2:16; second dam, 

 Carrie T.. 2 -.26 1-4, by Dom Pedro. Carrie 

 T. was the old-time sleighing champion of 

 Boston. Mr. Xichols resides in Reading, 

 Mass. 



EBEN B. PHILLIPS 



Eben B. Phillips was born in Swampscott, 

 Mass., and attended the schools of his native 

 town. He was one of the first members of 

 the Lynn Club, and filled the position of sec- 

 ond vice-president for four terms, first vice- 

 president in 1912, and became president by 

 the election of 1913. He is also a member 

 of the Metropolitan Club, which he joined in 

 1908. 



In the matinees of the Lynn Club Mr. 

 Phillips has been very strong, his horses 

 having been among the very fastest that took 

 the word in the events decided season after 

 season. This was particularly so in the big 

 interclub meets, held in the years of 1909 and 

 1910, when Reliance, 2:11 1-4, set a new 

 record for the Reading- W r akefield track of 

 1 :03 1-2, and, in the meet at Combination 

 Park, lowered the record of the track to 

 1:01 1-2. There was Croesus, 2:191-2, too, 

 which Mr. Phillips raced in the matinees for 

 two consecutive seasons without meeting a 

 single defeat. Among the others he has 

 raced can be called to mind, Al Ray, 2 :i3 1-4; 

 Jimmy B., 2:111-4; Clayola, 2:211-4; 

 Gloria Rex, 2:231-4; Laristina, 2:131-4: 

 James W., 2:09 1-4, which Lester Dore cam- 

 paigned extensively for Mr. Phillips in 1914: 

 Add F., 2:09 1-2, that paced the third heat at 



